Monday, December 11, 2006
Today was one of the most amazing days of my life. It has got to be one of my favorite of this trip.
The scenery is so beautiful and Milford Sound is gorgeous! I took SO many pictures. I haven't uploaded them to my computer yet, but they're coming. Probably not til I get home, though.
We stopped at a few places on the way to Milford Sound; the most remarkable being the Mirror Lakes and The Chasm. The Mirror Lakes are just like what they sound; lakes that mirror the stuff around them, except the stuff around them are huge, snow-capped mountains and wild flowers. It was SO pretty.
The Chasm is this magnificent hole in the ground, basically. It starts on one side as just an ordinary river and then on the other side, there is this, well, chasm and the colors in the water and the rocks is just amazing.
I feel like I have never seen color properly before coming here. Everything is just stunning.
Milford Sound is full of waterfalls [although, you can find waterfalls just driving along the road...] and seals and supposedly penguins and dolphins, as well, but we only saw seals. It's a fiord and so it was created by glaciers [much like everything else in the South Island] and it's just ... indescribable. I will definitely post pics soon.
I am so tired, though. I'm going to go hit the proverbial hay.
I love you and can't wait to see you!
Chelcie
PS - My solution to the possums is to just put on my headphones. If I can't hear 'em, they're not there.
The scenery is so beautiful and Milford Sound is gorgeous! I took SO many pictures. I haven't uploaded them to my computer yet, but they're coming. Probably not til I get home, though.
We stopped at a few places on the way to Milford Sound; the most remarkable being the Mirror Lakes and The Chasm. The Mirror Lakes are just like what they sound; lakes that mirror the stuff around them, except the stuff around them are huge, snow-capped mountains and wild flowers. It was SO pretty.
The Chasm is this magnificent hole in the ground, basically. It starts on one side as just an ordinary river and then on the other side, there is this, well, chasm and the colors in the water and the rocks is just amazing.
I feel like I have never seen color properly before coming here. Everything is just stunning.
Milford Sound is full of waterfalls [although, you can find waterfalls just driving along the road...] and seals and supposedly penguins and dolphins, as well, but we only saw seals. It's a fiord and so it was created by glaciers [much like everything else in the South Island] and it's just ... indescribable. I will definitely post pics soon.
I am so tired, though. I'm going to go hit the proverbial hay.
I love you and can't wait to see you!
Chelcie
PS - My solution to the possums is to just put on my headphones. If I can't hear 'em, they're not there.
// posted by Chelcie @ 12:07 AM 
